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Rudderless, ship suffers the nights, I'm the night shift
And nicest when I'm left to my muttering devices
Prologues and epilogues sundering a crisis
To bite-sized chunks, might try to fix em if you're licensed
Turning all my weapons on myself, try to terraform
Parroting to learn, be a parody of paramores
Got the costume and the props but the play stopped
Pay off opportunity costs lost in tradeoffs
Trading off on etiquette, treating and mistreating you
A long garden path for the evenings I'm retreating to
Commonplace book notes, sleeping in the reading room
Meet at noon - hey man, can I rent whatever's eating you?
I got the base to build a kingdom in the sky
While my future and my past are running rings around my eyes
Like in tape decks, you don't antedate my at the apex
Sixteens in LaTeX - I'm waiting for the paychecks...
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Feeling like I'm living on Scadrial as a guest part
Harder still to get myself apprenticed than in Ethshar
Princess of Amber with the Pattern as a test, mark
The Path of the Shell, need a walkthrough at the Cleft start
Long sleeves, it's a daughter on the wrong team
Got the wrong uniform, wrong part, wrong scene
Wrong coast, moving from stares and high temperatures
Nodding to my edits I'm not in the right register
Rabbit holes have left me stranded on the underside
Undecided if I've been really lucky or otherwise
Moths lose their mouths and don't sup with the butterflies
Larva gotta eat twice as much for enough to fly
These are field recordings from a cold day
Warm room, dry mouth, conversation hold A
Silver with the tongue and I'm groping for the gold place
Solved a couple problems and I'm coping with a copay
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AFAD,
released February 7, 2021
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